Egyptian Liver Journal

Table 9 Correlation between vitamin D level changes after supplementation in relation to anthropometric measures, metabolic profile and fibroscan

From: Stoss therapy versus weekly regimen of vitamin D in children with chronic liver disease: a randomized pilot study

	Vit. D change
	Group A		Group B
	R	p-value	r	p-value
Age (years)	− 0.616*	0.033	− 0.046	0.887
Weight (kg)	− 0.453	0.139	0.049	0.879
Height (cm)	− 0.408	0.188	0.063	0.845
BMI (kg/m²)	− 0.271	0.395	− 0.324	0.304
S. Ca (mg/dl)	0.635*	0.027	− 0.099	0.759
S. Po₄ (mg/dl)	0.023	0.944	− 0.039	0.905
S. ALP (U/l)	− 0.109	0.736	0.203	0.526
ALT (IU/l)	0.000	1.000	0.346	0.271
AST (IU/l)	− 0.295	0.351	0.423	0.170
Albumin (g/dl)	0.021	0.948	− 0.094	0.772
INR	− 0.004	0.991	− 0.416	0.179
Fibroscan	0.381	0.222	0.512	0.089
Child–Pugh score	− 0.180	0.575	− 0.179	0.578
Wt for height (SDS wt.)	− 0.337	0.283	− 0.021	0.948
Height for age (SDS ht.)	− 0.109	0.736	0.346	0.271
BMI SDS	− 0.295	0.351	0.034	0.917

*significant correlation

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